America Pastoral Poems

The Ten Commandments


Why are these stones 
So important they say
Do we really need them? 
Let us remove them from display


It's more than just old engraved stones
That we...

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The old red barn once stood proud
Against the storm, paying
Its own way with the Mail Pouch
Sign, brimming with hay
It staved winter's starving chill
A vanguard of...

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The Word WALK has a long history, going back to the beginning of time.
Even though I WALK THROUGH the valley of the shadow of death,
I...

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I do need you so Lord, Why?
To understand I am three in one body, but not trinity

Three in body but one is Spirit, deeply illumining...

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Three in body but one is Spirit, deeply illumining but in your eyes it deems.

You see just ONE outward part of me, 
But two are...

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It was a long lonely night at the lumber mill
Just listening to a whippoorwill 
In the dark beside a logging road.
I’ve got fifteen cars of...

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Hope is a description of an expectation of both tangible and imaginative things.
Hope brings  me joy because i am comforted that things will be...

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An alternate track is via Illinois River (from 
Chicago), to Mississippi, up the Ohio, and then 
through the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway 
(combination of a series of...

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While gathering wood one autumn day
To make a stack beside the stove,
I spied a nest along the way
Of back and forth and to and fro.

November’s...

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A sliver of shade
On the east side of the barn
Was where he unfolded his chair.
The pink lemonade stung
In the cracks of his blistered lips.
A panting...

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A new day begins
As the day before.
The Jersey girls assemble themselves
Into their usual cow chain.
One girl’s head follows another’s tail.
Then head then tail,
All along the...

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In Galilee, his voice was heard.
In Nazareth, he rested his spirit.
Cana is where he was first miraculous.
In Galilee, the crowds were like a flock of...

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Despite the climate challenge with traffic congestion on the road,
there’s still a driving urge to go out and celebrate the Eucharist;
it’s a great deal of...

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Stop the madness

Aggression fuels resistance the equation is simple the world is a school so tell me who is the 
bully it’s time for a...

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Burdened For America 



The light becomes dim, and we bow our head to pray,
We need you God – to lead us through our day. 
So...

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